This is the URL to the document my collegue found in 2001, note it is not a secure connection:
- Christus en de Koran [163] http://dutch.ccg.org/s/p163.html
Halfway down in the document - apparently written in Dutch - I found this paragraph, and I understood the sentence I have underlined:
De namen van God
God is met vele namen bekend in de Semitische talen. Dit is een moeilijkheid in het Nederlands. Het Hebreeuwse stamwoord is El. Het enkelvoud voor God is Eloah. De meervoudsvorm is elohim. In het Chaldees is het Elaha’ of Elahh met de meervoudsvorm Elahin. De Arabische vorm van Allah is afgeleid van of is gelijk aan Eloah of Elaha’. De naam van God gegeven bij Sinai was JAH(o)VEH. De stam is Jah (SHD 3050) voor de langere vorm Jehovah (SHD 3068) afgeleid van ‘eyeh ‘asher ‘eyeh (Ik zal zijn die Ik zijn zal, Ex. 3:14 zie Companion Bible). Jehovah (SHD 3068) is de Joodse nationale naam voor God. Jehovih (SHD 3069) wordt uitgesproken of gelezen als Elohim om niet in verwarring te komen en SHD 3068 wordt uitgesproken als Adonai (SHD 136). Eloah is het wezen dat de naam draagt van Jehovih of Jehovih der Heerscharen.
This is how the paragraph is written when translated to English:
The names of God
God is known by many names in the Semitic languages. This is a difficulty in Dutch. The Hebrew root word is El. The singular for God is Eloah.
The plural form is elohim. In Chaldees it is Elaha' or Elahh with the plural form Elahin. The Arabic form of Allah is derived from or is equal to Eloah or Elaha'. The name of God given at Sinai was JAH (o) VEH. The root is Jah (SHD 3050) for the longer form Jehovah (SHD 3068) derived from 'eyeh 'asher 'eyeh (I will be who I will be, Exodus 3:14 see Companion Bible). Jehovah (SHD 3068) is the Jewish national name for God. Jehovih (SHD 3069) is pronounced or read as Elohim to avoid confusion and SHD 3068 is pronounced as Adonai (SHD 136). Eloah is the being who goes by the name of Jehovih or Jehovih of Hosts.
Here is the whole document translated to English:
Christian Churches of God
[163]
Christ and the Quran [163]
(Edition 1.0)
Christianity, Judaism and Islam have their common roots in Abraham. The great theologians (such as Calvin, Harnack, Brunner) agree that rational theism, Judaism, the Bible and Islam are Unitarian. Theoretically, these religions must agree on the God they worship and work on a unified global family. Why is this not so? This article examines the similarities and conflicts in history and religious experience. It analyzes the God of the Bible and the Quran, the names of God, historical developments, understanding and details about a Messiah, faith in a Millennium
and resurrections. Many Christians will be surprised at the teachings of Muhammad in the Quran about the Christ of the Bible.
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Christ and the Quran [163]
Preface
The two major religions of the world, Christianity and Islam, are now diametrically opposed to each other and on the brink of war. Superficially, both religious experiences go back to Abraham and his offspring as the core of one worldwide family. Theoretically, Islam (meaning surrender) is the worship of the same God, as found in the pages of the Bible. We know this from studying the Bible and the Quran. The great theologians (such as Calvin, Harnack and Brunner) agree that rational Theism, Judaism, the Bible and Islam are Unitarian. These religions must theoretically agree with each other on the one God whom they worship. In this way we also have to find a common thread in their books.
Why then do they have such a quarrel that, for example in Egypt, after a period of 1,545 years since the council of Chalcedon, the Egyptian Coptic Church is now so persecuted by fundamentalist Islam in that country, that they have sought connection with Rome, with which they note that communication had been lost since that council (about 451 CE). The real reason of that council (namely Trinitarianism) became the cause of the rise of Islam. Why did this have to happen after fourteen centuries of peaceful coexistence? Would Mohammed have shared this view, based on data from the Koran? What does the Quran teach about Christ, and is Islam true to the faith once delivered to her? Our task is to investigate what the Quran teaches about Christ and to look at the modern point of view of both Islam and Christianity.
The God of the Bible and the Quran
The claim that the Islamic idea of God, in spite of superficial resemblance, is very different from the Christian idea of God, arises from considerations about the theological structure of both systems, which is now different from the original. In the Christian sense the Deity was changed under the influence of the mystery religions, merged into a triune or trinitarian model. Islam, on the other hand, was influenced by the metaphysical developments of later Indian Monism as an extension of Arian theology. However, the original concept in both the Bible and the Quran was Abraham's sense of God over God, and the nations that descend from him had this common sense. This included Israel, Judah, the Arab people and the sons of Ketura.
For all these Abrahamic peoples, God was spirit and power, who made Himself known to His people and had a clear plan for and purpose with the creation under His guidance. The expectation of a Prince, Lord or Messiah was evident since Abraham and was shared by the nations who descended from him. The Arab people are descended from Ishmael by the twelve princes (Genesis 17:20) (in parallel with Israel and also with a division in twelve according to the twelve tribes). Their traditions were given to all Islam through and through Mohammed. From Isaac the traditions were passed on to the people of Israel and from there delivered to the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
The Jewish sects expected the Messiah in the first century and the sons of Zadok (probably to be regarded as the Essenes) claimed that there would be two Messiahs, one Messiah of Aaron and one Messiah as king of Israel and that these two Messiahs were one Messiah. (see G. Vermes The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, (The Dead Sea scroll in English), re: Damascus Rule VII and the fragment from cave IV). So it was expected that the Messiah would come twice. After the death of Christ, the apostles, the seventy and their disciples brought the gospel to the lost tribes and thus the traditions were brought to Europe, Egypt, Asia and India. Christendom thus became free from Judaism and extended its salvation to the Gentiles, who at that time were known as non-Jews.
Jesus Christ as Messiah
The coming of the Messiah or anointed one of the Old Testament was fulfilled in Jehoshuah or Jesus by birth from Mariam of Nazareth. The genealogy of Christ (see the article Genealogy of the Messiah [119]) in the New Testament by Luke is seen by rabbinic Judaism as that of Eli, Mariams father.
The word Christ means in the Greek he who is anointed. This word has the same meaning as Messiah, he who is anointed, in Hebrew. So the Christ and the Messiah have the same meaning. The Arabic form in the Qur'an has the same meaning as anointed or God's Messiah. The Prophet Muhammad refers to Jesus Christ as the Messiah in different parts of the Qur'an and in particular to his condemnation of the then new heresy of the Trinity in Sura 4 Al-Nisa '(Women) 171 where he also gave him the Word calls; and at Sura 4: 172. The Sura 86, Al-Tariq (The Morning Star) - as translated by Pickthall) was written to explain the meaning of the death of Christ, the new Morning Star, through which all people were recreated or reborn through his death, indicated by the appearance of blood and water from the wound between the loin and rib.
Other original old meanings of Al-Tariq are remarkable: He who comes in the night and He who knocks at the door. The significance of Christ's warnings to the Church of Sardis and the assemblies in general in Revelation 3: 3 and 16:15 and to the Church of Laodicea in Revelation 3:20 becomes even clearer. He tells the Laodicean Church that he comes as Messiah. He says he is Al-Tariq, the Morning Star or King Messiah. He also says that the churches, especially Sardis and Laodicea, will not expect him when he comes. These congregations therefore exist at his return. The meaning of the Surat Al-Tariq has been completely lost in contemporary Islam.
Jesus, the Word, the High Priest after the order of Melchisedek, is the Morning Star of the planet Earth. Unfortunately, in Dutch the deeper meaning of the name has been lost and therefore more clarity has to be brought into this case. From Job 1: 6, 2: 1 and 38: 4-7 it can be seen that Morning stars and sons of God were present at the creation of the world and that those sons of God, including Satan, had constant access to the throne of God. Christ alluded to who he was in the gospels, but the meaning of what he said was not understood. The name Morgenster in the original Hebrew and Arabic means that who comes in the night or one who knocks on the door. This is preserved in the Arabic Al-Tariq and is understood by them. The Koran shows a clear and definite understanding of who the Morning Star was. Let us examine Sura 86 Al-Tariq (or Morning Star):
(Revealed before the Hegira)
1 In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Merciful. 2 At the sky and at the morning star. 3 And what do you know (of it) what the morning star is? 4 It is a star of penetrating clarity. 5 There is no soul about which there is no guard. 6 Let man therefore consider from which he was created. 7 He was created from a flowing liquid, 8 Which comes from between the backbone and the ribs. 9 Surely, He can call him back (to life). 10 On the Day when the secrets will be revealed. 11 Then he will have no strength and no helper. 12 At the cloud that gives rain. 13 And the earth, which splits through plants. 14 This is certainly a decisive word, 15 It is not a joke. 16 Verily they forge a plan. 17 And I too forge a (more powerful) plan. 18 Therefore give the unbelievers for a time delay. (translation Ahmadiyya Community, The Hague)
The verses 7 and 8 show so clearly from which we were created. This refers to that part of the crucifixion of the Morning Star, when Christ was pierced and found dead. In other words, it was at this moment of the death of Jesus, the Morning Star, that man was created. But if man was created with Adam, what did Muhammad mean? He meant that from that moment on man was created or born again in the Messiah; Jesus the son of Mariam, as he usually called him. Muhammad clearly refers in verse 9 to the resurrection of the dead, which is connected here with the Morning Star. Some in Islam try to explain the effluent as sperm. This is anatomically impossible.
It is said that Sura 4: 158 denies the crucifixion. Professor A. H. Johns takes this position with the wording:
They (The Jews) say: "We have murdered Christ, Jesus, the son of Mary, the Messenger of God." They did not kill him and did not crucify him, but it was presented to them (as if they had done it). (A.H. John's The Quran Pt II, Bulletin of Christian Affairs, No. 113, July 1981, p.12)
It does not prove that Muhammad denied that an attempt had been made or that physical death had been followed. The opposite appears from Al-Tariq. It is equally possible that he rejected the claims of the Jews with regard to the resurrection. The addition in brackets is not the original statement. If Professor John's interpretation is correct, Muhammad must be disqualified as a prophet because he contradicts the Law and the testimony (Isaiah 8:20). There must therefore be a different explanation for the text.
(Because the very words are part of the revelation within the Islamic tradition, sometimes the individual style of the Bible writers is a cause of concern for Moslems.) The awareness of the inspiration and correctness of the Holy Spirit has diminished since the merging of change and dilution of biblical law with the teachings of Athanasius, and this is an important cause for this vision. "See also Johns, ibid., page 19 for comments on the Muslim attitude and the deviant biblical story and the oral forms of the Quran)
Mohammed makes this clear in Sura 5 Al-Ma'idah (The Table) 18:
Surely they blaspheme God who say: "Messiah, son of Mariam, is surely Allah." Say: "Who then has power against Allah, if He wants to destroy the Messiah, son of Mariam and his mother and all who are on earth?"
The trinitarian starting point is the claim that Christ was God. But it is very clear that Christ, in human form, was not God. The concept of Christ as the firstfruits was overlooked, and the Trinitarian thought at the time of the prophet actually destroyed the concept of the spiritual unity of God. Moreover, as we shall see, the name of Allah is derived from Eloah. Christ was not Eloah and this point is supported by the Bible (see the series of articles on Deity, in particular The Deity Christ.) 147 The names for God in Greek and Latin (and also Dutch) do not bear the same composite meaning as in Hebrew, Chaldees, Aramaic or Arabic.
From the Surah Al-Tariq, Christians can now better understand what Christ said then, that he was the door (or gate) in John 10: 7. Moreover, in Matthew 7: 7 and Luke 11:10 who knocks, it will be opened to him, and in Revelation 3:20, behold, I stand at the door and I knock. All these texts are references to and indicate the name and status of Christ as the Morning Star, the purpose of his ministry and that he was the Messiah.
With both Al-Tariq and De Koe, the prophet says that there is no helper or mediator. He does not deny Christ's commission for the judgment of men, but rather the increasing practice of human or other mediation by Mariam, the angels and by dead saints. A further example is that from Surah Banie Isra'eel 17: 57-58 where it is written:
Say: "Call upon those whom you imagine beside Him, but these have no power to remove evil from you, or to change it." They even call upon their Lord, seeking His nearness, even the closest ones, hoping for His mercy and fearing His punishment. "
Biblical understanding is the same, whereby prayer is only addressed to God (in Christ's name) and to no other.
At the time of the Prophet, the following traditions were accepted:
Desecration of the Sabbath from the council of Elvira (about 300 CE) and by the edict of Constantine in 321 CE.
The names of God
God is known by many names in the Semitic languages. This is a difficulty in Dutch. The Hebrew root is El. The singular for God is Eloah. The plural form is elohim. In the Chaldees it is Elaha 'or Elahh with the plural form Elahin. The Arabic form of Allah is derived from or is equal to Eloah or Elaha '. The name of God given at Sinai was JAH (o) VEH. The stem is Jah (SHD 3050) for the longer form Jehovah (SHD 3068) derived from 'eyeh' asher 'eyeh (I will be who I will be, Exodus 3:14 see Companion Bible). Jehovah (SHD 3068) is the Jewish national name for God. Jehovih (SHD 3069) is spoken or read as Elohim in order not to be confused and SHD 3068 is pronounced as Adonai (SHD 136). Eloah is the being who bears the name of Jehovih or Jehovih of Hosts.
God was given as the living God who wants to be Lord of the whole thinking and life of man, and of whom his whole being is dependent. From Abraham we see that He was hidden from mankind and revealed Himself at different times in history and in godly appearances such as Moses and the laws on Sinai. Of Him it was always said that He was with His people and the people of Israel are considered mainly as a covenant people. The Prophet Muhammad puts this in the Qur'an (2:64, 84 ff, 94, 247, 3:94, 5:13, 45), and brings out the role and duty of this people by inciting it in Sura 2 : 41 ff & 123. Until the twelfth century Islam saw that Isaac had the birthright and not Ishmael, but the aversion of strangers in the later Hadithic writings distorted this doctrine and attributed the birthright to Ishmael. The Hadith was an explanatory text that arose to explain the meaning of the Qur'an in a similar way as the Talmud and the Tradition, which arose to explain the Bible according to rabbinical Judaism. This explanation was often directed against the express wording of the text. Christianity took over the same system in the Roman structure and later Protestantism. So the three systems became hopelessly confused in their understanding.
This Hadithic renewal in Islam had serious repercussions, because the teachings of Christ and those of the apostles were handed down in complete contradiction, and the Bible therefore had to be completely rejected as false. The purpose of the Arab people in God's plan was then misunderstood. Muhammad's description of the Arab people as the Middle Peoples had to be explained again in the Middle Ages as the Chosen People, losing sight of what the prophet meant by the term. The turnaround was undoubtedly caused by the military adventures of the Christian Church of Athanasius against Islam and the complete polarization. Forgotten was the role of protectors of the People of the Book or Nasrani as the Nazarene Christians were called. By the way, Omar had issued a protection regulation for Mesopotamia as well as for North Africa and Spain when the invasions took place there. Unfortunately, the Inquisition was explicitly directed against the Nazarite (Sabbath-keeping) Christians and also picked up Jews and Moslems. Modern Jewish writers (such as Netanyahu) deny that the Inquisition was directed against those Christians who followed the Law, kept the food laws and the holy days. They claim that the Inquisition was against the Jews and that the so-called Judaizing Christians, the Albigensians and Waldenses were real Jews, despite the fact that the rabbis of that time declared that they were not Jews. This contradiction is neither understood by current Christianity nor Islam and is apparently deliberately obscured by rabbinic Judaism.
Current Islam does not understand that the children of the Scriptures were also Israel. The reference to keep the covenant in Sura 17 is addressed to the children of Israel, including those of spiritual Israel and all of surrender, including Islam.
In the period after the exile, the covenant name Jahveh, as the title of honor and majesty, was replaced by Adonai because they did not understand the role of the subordinate Elohim of Israel, the Great Angel of Israel's atonement and redemption and Messiah (see Genesis 48:15). -16; Psalm 45: 7-8; Hebrews 1: 8-9).
The covenant name Jah (o) veh was made known to Moses and has become the written and unspoken name of God through traditions. According to Exodus 6: 2-3, this name was not known to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and this name was only used especially for Israel. But Jah (o) veh (under the authority of Jahoveh of Hosts) is however the ruler over all mankind. Israel was given to Jahoveh as its special part in the assignment of the nations to the sons of God by the Supreme God (Deuteronomy 32: 8-9).
The understanding of the existence of the One True God surrounded by angels (who bear His name as sons) was the same through the writings of the Old and New Testaments and the Qur'an. The concept of an angel associated with Jahveh is found in the Old Testament at Genesis 21:17, 22:11, 15, 31: 11-13; Exodus 3: 2-5; Judges 6: 11-23 etc., where the messenger is identified as Jahveh Himself and in these passages there is spoken alternately about the angel and about Jahveh, and in one case the name of God or Jahveh himself is found in the lead angel (Exodus 23: 20-21). In these cases the angel always has the form of Jahveh's appearance, but in human form but not in the flesh. It is written that no one has ever seen God. The appearing angel became the face of God, and thus Moses was promised that Jahveh's face would accompany the people in the wilderness (Exodus 33: 14-15). This person was the Elohim and El, who was called God, but not Jahveh. This person was called the archangel Michael by Judas, but is now seen as Jesus Christ or the Word, the pronounced approval or presence of God.
From the description of God, in the singular appearance as the Word, called Elohim (and El), the spoken name of God came forward. Traditionally, JHVH is not pronounced. Adonai was used for SHD 3068 and Elohim for SHD 3069. Elohim, although sometimes appearing in the singular sense, is in fact a plural form and often accompanied by the verb in the plural form. To display the name of the being The God in the unambiguous singular, the form Eloah is used. Eloah in the generic sense can also refer to a negative concept of God or no gods at all (Deuteronomy 32:17) where the denial of power and Deity is required. Eloah or (Allah) is used to indicate difference between the Eternal God (known as God the Father) and Elohim as the Word, the Face, or Presence of God. This angel of the Face is mentioned in Exodus 23:20. He bears the name of God, because my name is in him. A good example of this distinction is in Psalm 18:32
"For who is God (Eloah) except the Lord
And who is a rock outside of our God (Elohim)?
The concept of the word God as a separate divine form is also found in the habit of referring to authorities as elohim, because they were guided in their judgments by God, as was the case with the priests.
Eloah is used "forty-two times in the book of Job and only fifteen times elsewhere (for example Deuteronomy 32:15, 17, Psalm 18:32, Proverbs 30: 5, Isaiah 44: 8, Habakkuk 1:11)" (The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Vol.2, p.414).
When the Koran was recorded from the statements of Muhammad, a difference arose. Allah, Elohim, Jahveh, the Eternal are one and the same, except where Elohim is used as judge with regard to the Word, to the Messiah or to the Council of Elohim (see also the articles The elect as elohim [1], The God that we worship [2], The divinity of Christ [147], The Holy Spirit [117], and The first commandment: the sin of Satan [153]). The word Jehovah is a distortion of the written word JHVH with later punctuation. Traditionally, it was never spoken to not confuse it with the two beings to whom the texts refer as Jehovah and Jehovih. The Sopherim, or rabbinical writers, changed Jehovah in Adonai at 134 places in the Masoretic text to hide the differences (see Companion Bible, Appendices 31, 32, and 33). Similar changes were made that concern the term elohim (ibid.).
Current Islam rejects commentary on the Messiah and claims from some texts in the Quran that Muhammad did not make a distinction from Christ, such as from Sura 6 Al-An'ham (Livestock) verses 81-91 and in particular verse 86, where Jesus is called the Righteous. In fact, this group of texts clearly shows that wisdom is given by God and does not come from man. God reveals the truth to the elect and gives authority to the scriptures and prophecy. Obedience to His revealed word is conditional to the preservation of knowledge and authority; and transfer of authority to another, obedient, people, the punishment for disobedience. Herein the word of Christ reverberates in Matthew 21:43.
In Surah 5 Al-Ma'idah (the Table covered) verses 47, 79 and 111 et seq. We see that the gospel was given to Christ, affirming what was (revealed to) him, the fulfillment of the Law, and We gave him the gospel, which contained light and guidance, affirming what was in the Torah before and a guidance and an admonition for the godly.
Muhammad says unequivocally in verse 48 that the people of the gospel must speak justice to what has been revealed in them: And let the people of the gospel address what Allah has revealed in them and those who do not turn to what Allah has revealed to his transgressors.
A seemingly confusing part is in verse 53 because it is said that the Prophet Muhammad here contradicts himself when he says: you who believe, do not take the Jews and the Christians to friends. They are each other's friends.
Muhammad makes a clear distinction here between the people of the Gospel and those whom he simply calls Christians. He made a difference between the Church of God, which at that time was in Upper Syria, Armenia, and Mesopotamia, who held the Law and the teachings of Christ, and the greater mainstream of the sects of the Christian Church, who had adopted false pagan customs, with it belief in serious heresies, including the Trinity.
Later writers took the commentary just like Pickthall of verse 54 And the believers will say (to the people of the scripture): "Are these the ones who swore by Allah with great oath that they were indeed with you?" Their works have been lost and they have become losers. This text is in accordance with the promise of Christ in Revelation to the Church of Philadelphia, where those who say that they are Jews are not from the synagogue of Satan, and come and prostrate themselves (proskuneoo) before the chosen.
Muhammad states, in Sura 42 Al-Shura (Counselor) verse 14, that the religion (of surrender) was established under Abraham, Moses and Jesus, and not divided, and so known since the days of Noah. We know this position as the foundation of faith since Noah and the law as understood by Noah. Rabbinical Judaism refers to this as the Noahite law and considers it to be different from the law of the Torah and interpreted by the oral tradition. There is no Biblical difference between the law given to Moses and observed by Noah and Abraham, and kept by Melchizedek in Salem. Muhammad insists that God Himself chooses and calls them who are confirmed in the faith. This is exactly Paul's position in Romans 8: 29-34.
In verse 15 of Sura 42 Muhammad says that the division in faith arose after the knowledge was given and changed by rivalry (or by worldly motives), and that those who inherited the Scriptures after them, that is after the division, there would be in a worrying doubt. In other words, this mainstream became divided and apostate in the church. He apparently refers to the Diphysite / Monophysite schism and the doctrines of the Chalcedonians, and their fundamental errors concerning the original doctrines as practiced by the sect of the Paulicians.
Muhammad in Sura 43 Zukhruf (Ornaments of gold), speaking of the establishment of the religion, that Egypt declared Moses to be foolish (v. 55). Here Pharaoh is used in the biblical sense of sin and worldly power. He also states that people laugh about Christ.
Mohammed says, as a revelation in the Quran, about Christ: He (Jesus) is nothing but a servant (from God, that is Abd Allah, considered the highest indication) who We (that is Eloah, or Elaha ') gave Our favor and We set him an example for the children of Israel. He uses this in the sense of Romans 11 and it is from Muhammad that the clear national identity and accountability of the chosen ones is seen. In verse 64 Muhammad says that Jesus came with clear evidence (from Allah's supreme authority - Pickthall). He said, "I have come to you with wisdom in order that I may make clear what you differ from one another. Therefore fear Allah and obey me. He also shows in verse 66 the disagreements of the Jewish groups. The Hadith uses Sura 3 Al-Imran (The Family of Imran) verses 81-86. In verse 81, the Prophet says that he will command you to accept the angels and the prophets as gods. Would he command you disbelief after you became Muslim (after you surrendered to Allah)? And from verses 83 and 86:
Say (O Muhammad): "We believe in Allah and in what was revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the tribes and what was given to Moses and Jesus and the prophets through their Lord. no distinction between any of them, we only submit to Him. "
And those who seek a religion other than the Surrender to Allah (Islam), it will not be accepted from him and he will be among the losers in the Hereafter.
The expression surrender applies to Moses, Christ and Muhammad in the Old and New Testaments and the Koran. The Arabic word for surrender is Al Islam. The term loser in the Hereafter can only apply in the sense of obtaining a lesser resurrection and judgment.
From the comment We do not make any distinction between anyone, etc., current Islam tries to deny Athanasius's view and in this way somehow ignore the doctrine of Christ, which the Prophet does not allow them. The situation is not too different from the words of Christ himself when he gave the revelation to John. In Revelation 22: 7-9 he says:
"And, behold, I am coming soon." Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.
And I, John, am he who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I threw myself down at the angel's feet, which she showed me to worship.
But he said to me: Do not do that! I am a fellow-servant of you and your brothers, the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book; worship God! "
The statements of Christ and Muhammad are the same. The use of the term kurios or Lord in relation to Christ is in the sense of leader or ruler, not as Muhammad used here in the sense of God. The term not making a distinction between anyone is a reference to the inspiration of the message. The Gospel of the Kingdom of God was a message from the firstfruits and from the Spirit at Pentecost. So Muhammad could not deny that Christ was the firstfruits, as was his whole commission, and one accepted by Muhammad, as Al Tariq reflects so vividly. Muhammad in fact rejects the whole concept of Athanasius about the Trinity, which was never adhered to by the original Christian Church, and for which it was continually persecuted (see Prof. Roth's translation of The Edict of Faith of 1512 (The Declaration of Faith of 1512) by Andres Del Palacio, Inquisitor in Valencia - C. Roth The Spanish Inquisition (The Spanish Inquisition)). Islam can not deny Christ and then still be Islam. It should not be forgotten that Muhammad wrote to belie the heresy of the Trinity. These heretics claimed that Christ was a true God, while the Bible clearly indicates that there is only one true God and that Christ is His son whom He has sent (John 17: 3, 1 John 5:20). The Koran must be read in that light, but in the light of the texts that Muhammad had at his disposal. His family was under Christian influence and was Christian. But he was not a supporter of the Trinity and that was why Islam was founded and the Koran was written.
In Surah 57 Al-Hadid (Iron) the prophet shows in verses 27-28 that the faith was given to Noah and Abraham and that the Prophethood and the Book were placed in their offspring. The messengers (or prophets) had to follow in their footsteps and Jesus had to follow them and the gospel had been given, and the Lord had meekness and mercy placed in the heart of his followers. He also uses these verses specifically to reject monastic life as not ordained by God. The meaning of this is great. The sects, who at that time practiced this deviation, were both the supporters of Athanasius and the Monophysites. The Paulicians were the only sect that did not. It is still as unscriptural now as when the prophet put this outside of the law with these words ascribed to God, But we did not prescribe them to monastic life, but they invented it themselves.
From verse 26
Verily, We sent our messengers with clear evidence and revealed to them the Book and the Libra so that mankind may be righteous.
The People of the Book are reminded in verse 30 that they have no power over the mercy of Allah - surely the grace is in Allah's hands, He gives them to whom He will. This was a refutation of the doctrine laid down in 590 CE by Gregory I, at the temporary establishment of the Holy Roman Empire, which would last 1,260 years until 1850 CE. Rome proclaimed that the temporary authority rested with the Church of Rome. According to the Unam Sanctam bull, conservation was considered impossible outside the Church of Rome. This, of course, was contrary to the Bible and also to the Quran here.
The scriptures were kept by Judah as Messiah, and these are now available, like the New Testament. The Dead Sea Scrolls show that the scriptures are just as they were at the time of Christ. Islam can not therefore claim that they are unrecognizably distorted.
In Surah 61 Al-Saff (The ranks) (the congregation) Muhammad says in verse 7
And when Jesus, son of Mariam, said: "O children of Israel, I am Allah's messenger to you, confirming that which was in the Torah before me, and giving a glad tidings of a messenger who will come after me, his name will Ahmad (The Praised One) and when he will come to them with clear proofs, they will say: 'This is mere deception' ".
It is claimed that the word Ahmad (The Praised One) was one of the prophet's names, but others say it is a reference to the Spirit or Comforter, while others say it means both and is evidence of the acceptance of Mohammed. It would be unusual for Muhammad not to understand the role of the Spirit and it is unlikely that he would have attempted to apply this role in itself.
He refers in verse 15 to a controversy between two groups of the children of Israel, when Christ asked the disciples who were his helpers, and there were those who believed and did not believe, whereby the believers of God received strength and became conquerors.
It could be that he here refers to the forty-year period of grace given within the framework of the sign of Jonah and its completion with the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE and the destruction of Jerusalem from 1 Nisan 70 CE to Nisan 71 CE, exactly 40 years after the death of Christ. The Church of God fled to Pella and was spared while Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed with its followers. In this period, converts were disinherited and expelled from the community of Judah.
From Sura 19 Maryam (Mariam) and Sura 21 Al-Anbiya '(The Prophets) we see that Muhammad is walking the line of the prophets with Isaac and Israel into the kingship of David and Solomon. He claims no superiority for Ishmael, but rather acceptance for him among those mentioned in the Book, and as a prophet (19:54 ff and 21:85) and as one of the chosen ones at Sura 38:49.
From the Sura Maryam (Mariam) we have a clear explanation of the birth of Christ from a virgin, but the story seems to be related to the Egyptian Apocrypha Gospel, unless the comment is symbolic, which is probably the case, and refers to the period of isolation. Because Mary was certainly pregnant before marriage, the comment in verse 28 is probably a reference to this fact, which was observed by her relatives or village.
In verse 29, Muhammad notes a very important matter, referring to Mariam as Sister of Aaron. From Matthew and Luke we have the genealogy of Christ, which comes from David in Matthew through Solomon; and in Luke via Nathan (see the article Register of the Messiah [119].) Christ was from the line Judah and these two lines are from Judah, but to fulfill the expectations that the Messiah should be of two comings (the Messiah of Aaron and the Messiah of Israel) was descent from Levi, and the lines of Judah alone would not be sufficient to meet these expectations, which we know were widely known from the writings of the sons of Zadok. prophecy in Zechariah 12: 10-14 show that when they see me, they have pierced it to be the houses of the families of David by Nathan (v. 12) and Levi by Simi (v. 13). also Mariam's cousin Elisabeth, the wife of Zacharias, High Priest of the Department of Abia, and by the restrictions imposed upon the Levites by Numbers, was a full Levite, Mariam was probably half a Levite, that Zechariah could be fulfilled and Christ us the Messiah could be from Aaron and from Israel. Far from being a mistake or a general expression Muhammad's statement is in accordance with this prophecy in Zechariah, perhaps demonstrating that he had also read and understood Zechariah.
Confusion arose about the denial of the position with Mohammed that God Himself would not take a son. The Christianity of Athanasius and contemporary Islam do not both understand the ultimate destiny of humanity as children of God, and that Christ was the firstfruits of this.
Mohammed attempted to refute Athanasius's view of the Trinity, which limits the spiritual concept of unity and eternal existence with God, by restricting Christ to the understanding of a single and separate son in the human physical sense. If the Bible were read more accurately by both Christianity and Islam, then the prophet would be much better understood. In no place does Muhammad deny that Christ was the Messiah and the firstfruits. He actually proclaims it.
The early Hadithic traditions show that the Bible was written in Hebrew at the time of the prophet, and there are two sources for this. Origines' Hexaplas was in a number of cases transcribed in Hebrew and the Bible was available from Pella and Arabia in the earliest times, with the Church of God clearly established in Mesopotamia. The Law and the Prophets must therefore have been easily accessible from the Judaic dynasties in Mecca and Arabia Felix in general.
Current Islam claims that the books that the prophet has read are not the same as those that exist today, and therefore they should not follow the command of the prophet to study the Torah and the scriptures that contain the New Testament. The Dead Sea Scrolls prove that this doctrine is false.
In his writings, Muhammad clearly recognizes that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah. The Sunnis and Shiites did with his teachings what Rome did with the gospel of the Kingdom of God. Because of this, and through the Arab idolatry, Mohammed began his ministry. Islam now has another dispensation, they profane the Sabbath against the express command of the prophet, and they do not follow the food laws because they are ignorant of the extensive law in the Torah, because they do not read it. One can not read the Koran separately from the whole Bible and come to understanding. This hiding of the truth, although unconsciously, still happens today. In the otherwise perfectly readable translation, N. J. Darwood translated Al Tariq with the Nightly Visitor as the weakest meaning. This name is used far less than the Morning Star or He who stands at the door and knocks, but it was known and used in 1 Thessalonians 5: 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord is like a thief during the night.
Although this name loses some of its speed to Dutch readers, there is no doubt that Tariq is widely known throughout Islam. Ask any child named Tariq, which means his name, and if he knows, which is most likely, he will answer the Morning Star. Recognition in the Sura, the Morning Star and He with the pierced side of Jesus Christ is simple and unavoidable.
So we can see the development of this tradition since Moses, who reflected the first prophetic commentary on Genesis 17:19 and the promise to Judah in Genesis 49:10, The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him the nations will be obedient. The prophecy of Moses in Deuteronomy 18:15 and 18: 18-19 is seen as fulfilled by Christ.
The general expectation of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition is the coming of the Messiah, the King of Justice, who will establish a thousand-year reign (Revelation 20: 4), also known as the Millennium. The Christian tradition is that the Millennium (or Chiliad) will be preceded by the first resurrection of the Pelekizu (the martyrs, or the persecuted for the sake of Christ). The second or general resurrection takes place at the end of the Millennium.
Satan (also Azazel: Hebrew or Iblis: Arabic) is bound for a thousand years and then released at the end of the Millennium, where he will again seduce the world and the last war takes place.
This last deception is followed by the complete destruction of the nations, and then there is the second or total resurrection of the dead. The Qur'an in Sura 18 Al-Kahf (the Cave) 95-101 refers to this last war of Gog and Magog by name and shows that this is the time that the last trumpet is blown before the total resurrection of the dead and the judgment as we have seen. The last trumpet actually consists of two trumpets (Sura 39:69 Al-Zumar (The troops), and Sura 79: 7 ff Al-Insan (those who drag on) The troops have the first blow for the destruction of the nations, and the second for the resurrection, and verses 70-76 show the opening of the books of judgment.
Isaiah 65:20 shows that there will be a period of 100 years after the second resurrection so that all may receive salvation. After this the judgment takes place and the destruction of the unrepentant.
The biblical prophecies indicate that Elijah (or someone in the spirit of Elijah) is sent to announce the coming of the Messiah (Mal 4: 5). Matthew 17:11 shows that Elijah is yet to come and restore everything and that John the Baptist was a forerunner of this prophet. The sons of Zadok refer to this prophet as the Interpreter of the Law (which is in fact rather the Messiah of Israel than Elijah). Jeremiah 4:15 indicates that the prophet or voice giving the warning of the last days (see the paper The Warning of the Last Days [44]) comes from Dan and Ephraim. Later Catholic prophecies refer to this Danite prophet as the Danite Antichrist because he is a iconoclastic Sabbatist and preaches against Sunday worshiping churches.
The Mahdist tradition of Islam states that the Last Day of Hari Kiamat is announced by a time of global disasters. Suffering and oppression are then put to an end by the appearance of the Mahdi as the repairer of the order and the king of the Millennial Kingdom. This Kingdom is destroyed by Daddjal, the demon, (Revelation 20: 4-12) who in turn is defeated by the Prophet Isa (Jesus), who must restore righteousness. The Mahdists have confused the teachings of the scriptures and the Quran and have placed Elijah, or the Imam Hahdi, the Interpreter of the Law, as the repairer and king of the millennial kingdom, and they do Isa or Christ come after the release of Satan (in this case Daddjal) for the last war of Gog and Magog just before the end of the Millennium. Nevertheless, the prophet's expectation is the same.
The Messianic expectations of Islam have been taken over by the Ahmadiyyah Movement, which, founded by Mirza Ghulam Armad at the end of the nineteenth century, also adopted ideas from the Hindu as well as the Messiah in the Middle East (see K. Cragg (cf. Ling 7.37 and 7.39), Islam and the Muslim, Open University Press, 1978, page 70) So they are forged.
In Surah 18 Al-Kahf (the Cave) we find in verses 94-111, that Gog and Magog (the Leader and the Nation) first stand symbolically between the nations (Bergen), and in verse 100 we find that they let go to be destroyed on the last trumpet and by the Lord before the Day of Resurrection of verse 106. The Gardens of Paradise are mentioned as the reward for believers who do good works in verse 108, but it is assumed that this means the second or last garden.
The symbolism of the mountains here has many different symbolic meanings. From the Bible we know that the nations (always described as mountains) will be leveled and destroyed by Christ, but after the release of Satan, Gog and Magog stand up again for the second and last war. It is possible that the Prophet used this path between the mountains as a symbol to remove the distinction of the national power under the Messiah, but nevertheless recorded in the genetic identity as can be expected within the boundaries mentioned by Moses. The association with the natural border of the Caucasus would be inevitable for an Arab from the time of the Prophet and therefore the declaration would be considered an important symbol. The message of the Quran must therefore be explained within the context of the scriptures.
When the Qur'an is taken and read separately, it can, just like the New Testament, be twisted, and thereby inevitably become the source of division, hatred, persecution and war. When all three books are read together, as it should be, understanding is possible, and a complete plan for salvation emerges that can not be misunderstood.
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The Bible says that we need two or three witnesses to prove a matter, so I searched more on Internet for Jahoveh.
After a while I found Jahoveh in a song on a webside for Church of South India.
It is in Newsletter Vol. 2 / Issue 43 - How to beat depression? http://csinewsletter.com/csi-vol-2/csi-news-2v43.asp
- about 80% down in the document:
Guide me O Lord, always
According to thy will
Thy will, not mine
My father, My Jahoveh
Finally I could believe that it was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who told me to find His true Name by throwing lots.
- Christus en de Koran [163] http://dutch.ccg.org/s/p163.html
Halfway down in the document - apparently written in Dutch - I found this paragraph, and I understood the sentence I have underlined:
De namen van God
God is met vele namen bekend in de Semitische talen. Dit is een moeilijkheid in het Nederlands. Het Hebreeuwse stamwoord is El. Het enkelvoud voor God is Eloah. De meervoudsvorm is elohim. In het Chaldees is het Elaha’ of Elahh met de meervoudsvorm Elahin. De Arabische vorm van Allah is afgeleid van of is gelijk aan Eloah of Elaha’. De naam van God gegeven bij Sinai was JAH(o)VEH. De stam is Jah (SHD 3050) voor de langere vorm Jehovah (SHD 3068) afgeleid van ‘eyeh ‘asher ‘eyeh (Ik zal zijn die Ik zijn zal, Ex. 3:14 zie Companion Bible). Jehovah (SHD 3068) is de Joodse nationale naam voor God. Jehovih (SHD 3069) wordt uitgesproken of gelezen als Elohim om niet in verwarring te komen en SHD 3068 wordt uitgesproken als Adonai (SHD 136). Eloah is het wezen dat de naam draagt van Jehovih of Jehovih der Heerscharen.
This is how the paragraph is written when translated to English:
The names of God
God is known by many names in the Semitic languages. This is a difficulty in Dutch. The Hebrew root word is El. The singular for God is Eloah.
The plural form is elohim. In Chaldees it is Elaha' or Elahh with the plural form Elahin. The Arabic form of Allah is derived from or is equal to Eloah or Elaha'. The name of God given at Sinai was JAH (o) VEH. The root is Jah (SHD 3050) for the longer form Jehovah (SHD 3068) derived from 'eyeh 'asher 'eyeh (I will be who I will be, Exodus 3:14 see Companion Bible). Jehovah (SHD 3068) is the Jewish national name for God. Jehovih (SHD 3069) is pronounced or read as Elohim to avoid confusion and SHD 3068 is pronounced as Adonai (SHD 136). Eloah is the being who goes by the name of Jehovih or Jehovih of Hosts.
Here is the whole document translated to English:
Christian Churches of God
[163]
Christ and the Quran [163]
(Edition 1.0)
Christianity, Judaism and Islam have their common roots in Abraham. The great theologians (such as Calvin, Harnack, Brunner) agree that rational theism, Judaism, the Bible and Islam are Unitarian. Theoretically, these religions must agree on the God they worship and work on a unified global family. Why is this not so? This article examines the similarities and conflicts in history and religious experience. It analyzes the God of the Bible and the Quran, the names of God, historical developments, understanding and details about a Messiah, faith in a Millennium
and resurrections. Many Christians will be surprised at the teachings of Muhammad in the Quran about the Christ of the Bible.
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Christ and the Quran [163]
Preface
The two major religions of the world, Christianity and Islam, are now diametrically opposed to each other and on the brink of war. Superficially, both religious experiences go back to Abraham and his offspring as the core of one worldwide family. Theoretically, Islam (meaning surrender) is the worship of the same God, as found in the pages of the Bible. We know this from studying the Bible and the Quran. The great theologians (such as Calvin, Harnack and Brunner) agree that rational Theism, Judaism, the Bible and Islam are Unitarian. These religions must theoretically agree with each other on the one God whom they worship. In this way we also have to find a common thread in their books.
Why then do they have such a quarrel that, for example in Egypt, after a period of 1,545 years since the council of Chalcedon, the Egyptian Coptic Church is now so persecuted by fundamentalist Islam in that country, that they have sought connection with Rome, with which they note that communication had been lost since that council (about 451 CE). The real reason of that council (namely Trinitarianism) became the cause of the rise of Islam. Why did this have to happen after fourteen centuries of peaceful coexistence? Would Mohammed have shared this view, based on data from the Koran? What does the Quran teach about Christ, and is Islam true to the faith once delivered to her? Our task is to investigate what the Quran teaches about Christ and to look at the modern point of view of both Islam and Christianity.
The God of the Bible and the Quran
The claim that the Islamic idea of God, in spite of superficial resemblance, is very different from the Christian idea of God, arises from considerations about the theological structure of both systems, which is now different from the original. In the Christian sense the Deity was changed under the influence of the mystery religions, merged into a triune or trinitarian model. Islam, on the other hand, was influenced by the metaphysical developments of later Indian Monism as an extension of Arian theology. However, the original concept in both the Bible and the Quran was Abraham's sense of God over God, and the nations that descend from him had this common sense. This included Israel, Judah, the Arab people and the sons of Ketura.
For all these Abrahamic peoples, God was spirit and power, who made Himself known to His people and had a clear plan for and purpose with the creation under His guidance. The expectation of a Prince, Lord or Messiah was evident since Abraham and was shared by the nations who descended from him. The Arab people are descended from Ishmael by the twelve princes (Genesis 17:20) (in parallel with Israel and also with a division in twelve according to the twelve tribes). Their traditions were given to all Islam through and through Mohammed. From Isaac the traditions were passed on to the people of Israel and from there delivered to the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
The Jewish sects expected the Messiah in the first century and the sons of Zadok (probably to be regarded as the Essenes) claimed that there would be two Messiahs, one Messiah of Aaron and one Messiah as king of Israel and that these two Messiahs were one Messiah. (see G. Vermes The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, (The Dead Sea scroll in English), re: Damascus Rule VII and the fragment from cave IV). So it was expected that the Messiah would come twice. After the death of Christ, the apostles, the seventy and their disciples brought the gospel to the lost tribes and thus the traditions were brought to Europe, Egypt, Asia and India. Christendom thus became free from Judaism and extended its salvation to the Gentiles, who at that time were known as non-Jews.
Jesus Christ as Messiah
The coming of the Messiah or anointed one of the Old Testament was fulfilled in Jehoshuah or Jesus by birth from Mariam of Nazareth. The genealogy of Christ (see the article Genealogy of the Messiah [119]) in the New Testament by Luke is seen by rabbinic Judaism as that of Eli, Mariams father.
The word Christ means in the Greek he who is anointed. This word has the same meaning as Messiah, he who is anointed, in Hebrew. So the Christ and the Messiah have the same meaning. The Arabic form in the Qur'an has the same meaning as anointed or God's Messiah. The Prophet Muhammad refers to Jesus Christ as the Messiah in different parts of the Qur'an and in particular to his condemnation of the then new heresy of the Trinity in Sura 4 Al-Nisa '(Women) 171 where he also gave him the Word calls; and at Sura 4: 172. The Sura 86, Al-Tariq (The Morning Star) - as translated by Pickthall) was written to explain the meaning of the death of Christ, the new Morning Star, through which all people were recreated or reborn through his death, indicated by the appearance of blood and water from the wound between the loin and rib.
Other original old meanings of Al-Tariq are remarkable: He who comes in the night and He who knocks at the door. The significance of Christ's warnings to the Church of Sardis and the assemblies in general in Revelation 3: 3 and 16:15 and to the Church of Laodicea in Revelation 3:20 becomes even clearer. He tells the Laodicean Church that he comes as Messiah. He says he is Al-Tariq, the Morning Star or King Messiah. He also says that the churches, especially Sardis and Laodicea, will not expect him when he comes. These congregations therefore exist at his return. The meaning of the Surat Al-Tariq has been completely lost in contemporary Islam.
Jesus, the Word, the High Priest after the order of Melchisedek, is the Morning Star of the planet Earth. Unfortunately, in Dutch the deeper meaning of the name has been lost and therefore more clarity has to be brought into this case. From Job 1: 6, 2: 1 and 38: 4-7 it can be seen that Morning stars and sons of God were present at the creation of the world and that those sons of God, including Satan, had constant access to the throne of God. Christ alluded to who he was in the gospels, but the meaning of what he said was not understood. The name Morgenster in the original Hebrew and Arabic means that who comes in the night or one who knocks on the door. This is preserved in the Arabic Al-Tariq and is understood by them. The Koran shows a clear and definite understanding of who the Morning Star was. Let us examine Sura 86 Al-Tariq (or Morning Star):
(Revealed before the Hegira)
1 In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Merciful. 2 At the sky and at the morning star. 3 And what do you know (of it) what the morning star is? 4 It is a star of penetrating clarity. 5 There is no soul about which there is no guard. 6 Let man therefore consider from which he was created. 7 He was created from a flowing liquid, 8 Which comes from between the backbone and the ribs. 9 Surely, He can call him back (to life). 10 On the Day when the secrets will be revealed. 11 Then he will have no strength and no helper. 12 At the cloud that gives rain. 13 And the earth, which splits through plants. 14 This is certainly a decisive word, 15 It is not a joke. 16 Verily they forge a plan. 17 And I too forge a (more powerful) plan. 18 Therefore give the unbelievers for a time delay. (translation Ahmadiyya Community, The Hague)
The verses 7 and 8 show so clearly from which we were created. This refers to that part of the crucifixion of the Morning Star, when Christ was pierced and found dead. In other words, it was at this moment of the death of Jesus, the Morning Star, that man was created. But if man was created with Adam, what did Muhammad mean? He meant that from that moment on man was created or born again in the Messiah; Jesus the son of Mariam, as he usually called him. Muhammad clearly refers in verse 9 to the resurrection of the dead, which is connected here with the Morning Star. Some in Islam try to explain the effluent as sperm. This is anatomically impossible.
It is said that Sura 4: 158 denies the crucifixion. Professor A. H. Johns takes this position with the wording:
They (The Jews) say: "We have murdered Christ, Jesus, the son of Mary, the Messenger of God." They did not kill him and did not crucify him, but it was presented to them (as if they had done it). (A.H. John's The Quran Pt II, Bulletin of Christian Affairs, No. 113, July 1981, p.12)
It does not prove that Muhammad denied that an attempt had been made or that physical death had been followed. The opposite appears from Al-Tariq. It is equally possible that he rejected the claims of the Jews with regard to the resurrection. The addition in brackets is not the original statement. If Professor John's interpretation is correct, Muhammad must be disqualified as a prophet because he contradicts the Law and the testimony (Isaiah 8:20). There must therefore be a different explanation for the text.
(Because the very words are part of the revelation within the Islamic tradition, sometimes the individual style of the Bible writers is a cause of concern for Moslems.) The awareness of the inspiration and correctness of the Holy Spirit has diminished since the merging of change and dilution of biblical law with the teachings of Athanasius, and this is an important cause for this vision. "See also Johns, ibid., page 19 for comments on the Muslim attitude and the deviant biblical story and the oral forms of the Quran)
Mohammed makes this clear in Sura 5 Al-Ma'idah (The Table) 18:
Surely they blaspheme God who say: "Messiah, son of Mariam, is surely Allah." Say: "Who then has power against Allah, if He wants to destroy the Messiah, son of Mariam and his mother and all who are on earth?"
The trinitarian starting point is the claim that Christ was God. But it is very clear that Christ, in human form, was not God. The concept of Christ as the firstfruits was overlooked, and the Trinitarian thought at the time of the prophet actually destroyed the concept of the spiritual unity of God. Moreover, as we shall see, the name of Allah is derived from Eloah. Christ was not Eloah and this point is supported by the Bible (see the series of articles on Deity, in particular The Deity Christ.) 147 The names for God in Greek and Latin (and also Dutch) do not bear the same composite meaning as in Hebrew, Chaldees, Aramaic or Arabic.
From the Surah Al-Tariq, Christians can now better understand what Christ said then, that he was the door (or gate) in John 10: 7. Moreover, in Matthew 7: 7 and Luke 11:10 who knocks, it will be opened to him, and in Revelation 3:20, behold, I stand at the door and I knock. All these texts are references to and indicate the name and status of Christ as the Morning Star, the purpose of his ministry and that he was the Messiah.
With both Al-Tariq and De Koe, the prophet says that there is no helper or mediator. He does not deny Christ's commission for the judgment of men, but rather the increasing practice of human or other mediation by Mariam, the angels and by dead saints. A further example is that from Surah Banie Isra'eel 17: 57-58 where it is written:
Say: "Call upon those whom you imagine beside Him, but these have no power to remove evil from you, or to change it." They even call upon their Lord, seeking His nearness, even the closest ones, hoping for His mercy and fearing His punishment. "
Biblical understanding is the same, whereby prayer is only addressed to God (in Christ's name) and to no other.
At the time of the Prophet, the following traditions were accepted:
Desecration of the Sabbath from the council of Elvira (about 300 CE) and by the edict of Constantine in 321 CE.
- The doctrine of the Trinity and the resurrection on Sunday, the Day of the Lord, established at the council of Nicaea in 325 CE.
- Consent to this was confirmed by Constantine, who with a cohort marched Roman soldiers and arrested Theonas of Marmarica as well as Secundus of Ptolemais (with a crowd of other bishops). These bishops were banished to Illyricum with Arius until 327/328 CE when they were called back and reaffirmed in their office.
- Prohibition of sabbath celebration by the council of Laodicea in 366 CE.
- Worship of angels and dead saints (circa 375 CE).
- Worship of saints and relics approved at the council of Constantinople in 381 CE. The two elements of the Trinity are formulated at this Council and power was granted to the Athanasian following.
- Worship of Mary (or Mariolatry) and the use of the title Mother of God was introduced at the Council of Ephesus in 431 CE.
- The Trinity was finally formulated with the Holy Spirit as the third element of the council of Chalcedon (circa 451 CE).
- The doctrine of purgatory was determined by Pope Gregory in 593 CE.
The names of God
God is known by many names in the Semitic languages. This is a difficulty in Dutch. The Hebrew root is El. The singular for God is Eloah. The plural form is elohim. In the Chaldees it is Elaha 'or Elahh with the plural form Elahin. The Arabic form of Allah is derived from or is equal to Eloah or Elaha '. The name of God given at Sinai was JAH (o) VEH. The stem is Jah (SHD 3050) for the longer form Jehovah (SHD 3068) derived from 'eyeh' asher 'eyeh (I will be who I will be, Exodus 3:14 see Companion Bible). Jehovah (SHD 3068) is the Jewish national name for God. Jehovih (SHD 3069) is spoken or read as Elohim in order not to be confused and SHD 3068 is pronounced as Adonai (SHD 136). Eloah is the being who bears the name of Jehovih or Jehovih of Hosts.
God was given as the living God who wants to be Lord of the whole thinking and life of man, and of whom his whole being is dependent. From Abraham we see that He was hidden from mankind and revealed Himself at different times in history and in godly appearances such as Moses and the laws on Sinai. Of Him it was always said that He was with His people and the people of Israel are considered mainly as a covenant people. The Prophet Muhammad puts this in the Qur'an (2:64, 84 ff, 94, 247, 3:94, 5:13, 45), and brings out the role and duty of this people by inciting it in Sura 2 : 41 ff & 123. Until the twelfth century Islam saw that Isaac had the birthright and not Ishmael, but the aversion of strangers in the later Hadithic writings distorted this doctrine and attributed the birthright to Ishmael. The Hadith was an explanatory text that arose to explain the meaning of the Qur'an in a similar way as the Talmud and the Tradition, which arose to explain the Bible according to rabbinical Judaism. This explanation was often directed against the express wording of the text. Christianity took over the same system in the Roman structure and later Protestantism. So the three systems became hopelessly confused in their understanding.
This Hadithic renewal in Islam had serious repercussions, because the teachings of Christ and those of the apostles were handed down in complete contradiction, and the Bible therefore had to be completely rejected as false. The purpose of the Arab people in God's plan was then misunderstood. Muhammad's description of the Arab people as the Middle Peoples had to be explained again in the Middle Ages as the Chosen People, losing sight of what the prophet meant by the term. The turnaround was undoubtedly caused by the military adventures of the Christian Church of Athanasius against Islam and the complete polarization. Forgotten was the role of protectors of the People of the Book or Nasrani as the Nazarene Christians were called. By the way, Omar had issued a protection regulation for Mesopotamia as well as for North Africa and Spain when the invasions took place there. Unfortunately, the Inquisition was explicitly directed against the Nazarite (Sabbath-keeping) Christians and also picked up Jews and Moslems. Modern Jewish writers (such as Netanyahu) deny that the Inquisition was directed against those Christians who followed the Law, kept the food laws and the holy days. They claim that the Inquisition was against the Jews and that the so-called Judaizing Christians, the Albigensians and Waldenses were real Jews, despite the fact that the rabbis of that time declared that they were not Jews. This contradiction is neither understood by current Christianity nor Islam and is apparently deliberately obscured by rabbinic Judaism.
Current Islam does not understand that the children of the Scriptures were also Israel. The reference to keep the covenant in Sura 17 is addressed to the children of Israel, including those of spiritual Israel and all of surrender, including Islam.
In the period after the exile, the covenant name Jahveh, as the title of honor and majesty, was replaced by Adonai because they did not understand the role of the subordinate Elohim of Israel, the Great Angel of Israel's atonement and redemption and Messiah (see Genesis 48:15). -16; Psalm 45: 7-8; Hebrews 1: 8-9).
The covenant name Jah (o) veh was made known to Moses and has become the written and unspoken name of God through traditions. According to Exodus 6: 2-3, this name was not known to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and this name was only used especially for Israel. But Jah (o) veh (under the authority of Jahoveh of Hosts) is however the ruler over all mankind. Israel was given to Jahoveh as its special part in the assignment of the nations to the sons of God by the Supreme God (Deuteronomy 32: 8-9).
The understanding of the existence of the One True God surrounded by angels (who bear His name as sons) was the same through the writings of the Old and New Testaments and the Qur'an. The concept of an angel associated with Jahveh is found in the Old Testament at Genesis 21:17, 22:11, 15, 31: 11-13; Exodus 3: 2-5; Judges 6: 11-23 etc., where the messenger is identified as Jahveh Himself and in these passages there is spoken alternately about the angel and about Jahveh, and in one case the name of God or Jahveh himself is found in the lead angel (Exodus 23: 20-21). In these cases the angel always has the form of Jahveh's appearance, but in human form but not in the flesh. It is written that no one has ever seen God. The appearing angel became the face of God, and thus Moses was promised that Jahveh's face would accompany the people in the wilderness (Exodus 33: 14-15). This person was the Elohim and El, who was called God, but not Jahveh. This person was called the archangel Michael by Judas, but is now seen as Jesus Christ or the Word, the pronounced approval or presence of God.
From the description of God, in the singular appearance as the Word, called Elohim (and El), the spoken name of God came forward. Traditionally, JHVH is not pronounced. Adonai was used for SHD 3068 and Elohim for SHD 3069. Elohim, although sometimes appearing in the singular sense, is in fact a plural form and often accompanied by the verb in the plural form. To display the name of the being The God in the unambiguous singular, the form Eloah is used. Eloah in the generic sense can also refer to a negative concept of God or no gods at all (Deuteronomy 32:17) where the denial of power and Deity is required. Eloah or (Allah) is used to indicate difference between the Eternal God (known as God the Father) and Elohim as the Word, the Face, or Presence of God. This angel of the Face is mentioned in Exodus 23:20. He bears the name of God, because my name is in him. A good example of this distinction is in Psalm 18:32
"For who is God (Eloah) except the Lord
And who is a rock outside of our God (Elohim)?
The concept of the word God as a separate divine form is also found in the habit of referring to authorities as elohim, because they were guided in their judgments by God, as was the case with the priests.
Eloah is used "forty-two times in the book of Job and only fifteen times elsewhere (for example Deuteronomy 32:15, 17, Psalm 18:32, Proverbs 30: 5, Isaiah 44: 8, Habakkuk 1:11)" (The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Vol.2, p.414).
When the Koran was recorded from the statements of Muhammad, a difference arose. Allah, Elohim, Jahveh, the Eternal are one and the same, except where Elohim is used as judge with regard to the Word, to the Messiah or to the Council of Elohim (see also the articles The elect as elohim [1], The God that we worship [2], The divinity of Christ [147], The Holy Spirit [117], and The first commandment: the sin of Satan [153]). The word Jehovah is a distortion of the written word JHVH with later punctuation. Traditionally, it was never spoken to not confuse it with the two beings to whom the texts refer as Jehovah and Jehovih. The Sopherim, or rabbinical writers, changed Jehovah in Adonai at 134 places in the Masoretic text to hide the differences (see Companion Bible, Appendices 31, 32, and 33). Similar changes were made that concern the term elohim (ibid.).
Current Islam rejects commentary on the Messiah and claims from some texts in the Quran that Muhammad did not make a distinction from Christ, such as from Sura 6 Al-An'ham (Livestock) verses 81-91 and in particular verse 86, where Jesus is called the Righteous. In fact, this group of texts clearly shows that wisdom is given by God and does not come from man. God reveals the truth to the elect and gives authority to the scriptures and prophecy. Obedience to His revealed word is conditional to the preservation of knowledge and authority; and transfer of authority to another, obedient, people, the punishment for disobedience. Herein the word of Christ reverberates in Matthew 21:43.
In Surah 5 Al-Ma'idah (the Table covered) verses 47, 79 and 111 et seq. We see that the gospel was given to Christ, affirming what was (revealed to) him, the fulfillment of the Law, and We gave him the gospel, which contained light and guidance, affirming what was in the Torah before and a guidance and an admonition for the godly.
Muhammad says unequivocally in verse 48 that the people of the gospel must speak justice to what has been revealed in them: And let the people of the gospel address what Allah has revealed in them and those who do not turn to what Allah has revealed to his transgressors.
A seemingly confusing part is in verse 53 because it is said that the Prophet Muhammad here contradicts himself when he says: you who believe, do not take the Jews and the Christians to friends. They are each other's friends.
Muhammad makes a clear distinction here between the people of the Gospel and those whom he simply calls Christians. He made a difference between the Church of God, which at that time was in Upper Syria, Armenia, and Mesopotamia, who held the Law and the teachings of Christ, and the greater mainstream of the sects of the Christian Church, who had adopted false pagan customs, with it belief in serious heresies, including the Trinity.
Later writers took the commentary just like Pickthall of verse 54 And the believers will say (to the people of the scripture): "Are these the ones who swore by Allah with great oath that they were indeed with you?" Their works have been lost and they have become losers. This text is in accordance with the promise of Christ in Revelation to the Church of Philadelphia, where those who say that they are Jews are not from the synagogue of Satan, and come and prostrate themselves (proskuneoo) before the chosen.
Muhammad states, in Sura 42 Al-Shura (Counselor) verse 14, that the religion (of surrender) was established under Abraham, Moses and Jesus, and not divided, and so known since the days of Noah. We know this position as the foundation of faith since Noah and the law as understood by Noah. Rabbinical Judaism refers to this as the Noahite law and considers it to be different from the law of the Torah and interpreted by the oral tradition. There is no Biblical difference between the law given to Moses and observed by Noah and Abraham, and kept by Melchizedek in Salem. Muhammad insists that God Himself chooses and calls them who are confirmed in the faith. This is exactly Paul's position in Romans 8: 29-34.
In verse 15 of Sura 42 Muhammad says that the division in faith arose after the knowledge was given and changed by rivalry (or by worldly motives), and that those who inherited the Scriptures after them, that is after the division, there would be in a worrying doubt. In other words, this mainstream became divided and apostate in the church. He apparently refers to the Diphysite / Monophysite schism and the doctrines of the Chalcedonians, and their fundamental errors concerning the original doctrines as practiced by the sect of the Paulicians.
Muhammad in Sura 43 Zukhruf (Ornaments of gold), speaking of the establishment of the religion, that Egypt declared Moses to be foolish (v. 55). Here Pharaoh is used in the biblical sense of sin and worldly power. He also states that people laugh about Christ.
Mohammed says, as a revelation in the Quran, about Christ: He (Jesus) is nothing but a servant (from God, that is Abd Allah, considered the highest indication) who We (that is Eloah, or Elaha ') gave Our favor and We set him an example for the children of Israel. He uses this in the sense of Romans 11 and it is from Muhammad that the clear national identity and accountability of the chosen ones is seen. In verse 64 Muhammad says that Jesus came with clear evidence (from Allah's supreme authority - Pickthall). He said, "I have come to you with wisdom in order that I may make clear what you differ from one another. Therefore fear Allah and obey me. He also shows in verse 66 the disagreements of the Jewish groups. The Hadith uses Sura 3 Al-Imran (The Family of Imran) verses 81-86. In verse 81, the Prophet says that he will command you to accept the angels and the prophets as gods. Would he command you disbelief after you became Muslim (after you surrendered to Allah)? And from verses 83 and 86:
Say (O Muhammad): "We believe in Allah and in what was revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the tribes and what was given to Moses and Jesus and the prophets through their Lord. no distinction between any of them, we only submit to Him. "
And those who seek a religion other than the Surrender to Allah (Islam), it will not be accepted from him and he will be among the losers in the Hereafter.
The expression surrender applies to Moses, Christ and Muhammad in the Old and New Testaments and the Koran. The Arabic word for surrender is Al Islam. The term loser in the Hereafter can only apply in the sense of obtaining a lesser resurrection and judgment.
From the comment We do not make any distinction between anyone, etc., current Islam tries to deny Athanasius's view and in this way somehow ignore the doctrine of Christ, which the Prophet does not allow them. The situation is not too different from the words of Christ himself when he gave the revelation to John. In Revelation 22: 7-9 he says:
"And, behold, I am coming soon." Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.
And I, John, am he who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I threw myself down at the angel's feet, which she showed me to worship.
But he said to me: Do not do that! I am a fellow-servant of you and your brothers, the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book; worship God! "
The statements of Christ and Muhammad are the same. The use of the term kurios or Lord in relation to Christ is in the sense of leader or ruler, not as Muhammad used here in the sense of God. The term not making a distinction between anyone is a reference to the inspiration of the message. The Gospel of the Kingdom of God was a message from the firstfruits and from the Spirit at Pentecost. So Muhammad could not deny that Christ was the firstfruits, as was his whole commission, and one accepted by Muhammad, as Al Tariq reflects so vividly. Muhammad in fact rejects the whole concept of Athanasius about the Trinity, which was never adhered to by the original Christian Church, and for which it was continually persecuted (see Prof. Roth's translation of The Edict of Faith of 1512 (The Declaration of Faith of 1512) by Andres Del Palacio, Inquisitor in Valencia - C. Roth The Spanish Inquisition (The Spanish Inquisition)). Islam can not deny Christ and then still be Islam. It should not be forgotten that Muhammad wrote to belie the heresy of the Trinity. These heretics claimed that Christ was a true God, while the Bible clearly indicates that there is only one true God and that Christ is His son whom He has sent (John 17: 3, 1 John 5:20). The Koran must be read in that light, but in the light of the texts that Muhammad had at his disposal. His family was under Christian influence and was Christian. But he was not a supporter of the Trinity and that was why Islam was founded and the Koran was written.
In Surah 57 Al-Hadid (Iron) the prophet shows in verses 27-28 that the faith was given to Noah and Abraham and that the Prophethood and the Book were placed in their offspring. The messengers (or prophets) had to follow in their footsteps and Jesus had to follow them and the gospel had been given, and the Lord had meekness and mercy placed in the heart of his followers. He also uses these verses specifically to reject monastic life as not ordained by God. The meaning of this is great. The sects, who at that time practiced this deviation, were both the supporters of Athanasius and the Monophysites. The Paulicians were the only sect that did not. It is still as unscriptural now as when the prophet put this outside of the law with these words ascribed to God, But we did not prescribe them to monastic life, but they invented it themselves.
From verse 26
Verily, We sent our messengers with clear evidence and revealed to them the Book and the Libra so that mankind may be righteous.
The People of the Book are reminded in verse 30 that they have no power over the mercy of Allah - surely the grace is in Allah's hands, He gives them to whom He will. This was a refutation of the doctrine laid down in 590 CE by Gregory I, at the temporary establishment of the Holy Roman Empire, which would last 1,260 years until 1850 CE. Rome proclaimed that the temporary authority rested with the Church of Rome. According to the Unam Sanctam bull, conservation was considered impossible outside the Church of Rome. This, of course, was contrary to the Bible and also to the Quran here.
The scriptures were kept by Judah as Messiah, and these are now available, like the New Testament. The Dead Sea Scrolls show that the scriptures are just as they were at the time of Christ. Islam can not therefore claim that they are unrecognizably distorted.
In Surah 61 Al-Saff (The ranks) (the congregation) Muhammad says in verse 7
And when Jesus, son of Mariam, said: "O children of Israel, I am Allah's messenger to you, confirming that which was in the Torah before me, and giving a glad tidings of a messenger who will come after me, his name will Ahmad (The Praised One) and when he will come to them with clear proofs, they will say: 'This is mere deception' ".
It is claimed that the word Ahmad (The Praised One) was one of the prophet's names, but others say it is a reference to the Spirit or Comforter, while others say it means both and is evidence of the acceptance of Mohammed. It would be unusual for Muhammad not to understand the role of the Spirit and it is unlikely that he would have attempted to apply this role in itself.
He refers in verse 15 to a controversy between two groups of the children of Israel, when Christ asked the disciples who were his helpers, and there were those who believed and did not believe, whereby the believers of God received strength and became conquerors.
It could be that he here refers to the forty-year period of grace given within the framework of the sign of Jonah and its completion with the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE and the destruction of Jerusalem from 1 Nisan 70 CE to Nisan 71 CE, exactly 40 years after the death of Christ. The Church of God fled to Pella and was spared while Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed with its followers. In this period, converts were disinherited and expelled from the community of Judah.
From Sura 19 Maryam (Mariam) and Sura 21 Al-Anbiya '(The Prophets) we see that Muhammad is walking the line of the prophets with Isaac and Israel into the kingship of David and Solomon. He claims no superiority for Ishmael, but rather acceptance for him among those mentioned in the Book, and as a prophet (19:54 ff and 21:85) and as one of the chosen ones at Sura 38:49.
From the Sura Maryam (Mariam) we have a clear explanation of the birth of Christ from a virgin, but the story seems to be related to the Egyptian Apocrypha Gospel, unless the comment is symbolic, which is probably the case, and refers to the period of isolation. Because Mary was certainly pregnant before marriage, the comment in verse 28 is probably a reference to this fact, which was observed by her relatives or village.
In verse 29, Muhammad notes a very important matter, referring to Mariam as Sister of Aaron. From Matthew and Luke we have the genealogy of Christ, which comes from David in Matthew through Solomon; and in Luke via Nathan (see the article Register of the Messiah [119].) Christ was from the line Judah and these two lines are from Judah, but to fulfill the expectations that the Messiah should be of two comings (the Messiah of Aaron and the Messiah of Israel) was descent from Levi, and the lines of Judah alone would not be sufficient to meet these expectations, which we know were widely known from the writings of the sons of Zadok. prophecy in Zechariah 12: 10-14 show that when they see me, they have pierced it to be the houses of the families of David by Nathan (v. 12) and Levi by Simi (v. 13). also Mariam's cousin Elisabeth, the wife of Zacharias, High Priest of the Department of Abia, and by the restrictions imposed upon the Levites by Numbers, was a full Levite, Mariam was probably half a Levite, that Zechariah could be fulfilled and Christ us the Messiah could be from Aaron and from Israel. Far from being a mistake or a general expression Muhammad's statement is in accordance with this prophecy in Zechariah, perhaps demonstrating that he had also read and understood Zechariah.
Confusion arose about the denial of the position with Mohammed that God Himself would not take a son. The Christianity of Athanasius and contemporary Islam do not both understand the ultimate destiny of humanity as children of God, and that Christ was the firstfruits of this.
Mohammed attempted to refute Athanasius's view of the Trinity, which limits the spiritual concept of unity and eternal existence with God, by restricting Christ to the understanding of a single and separate son in the human physical sense. If the Bible were read more accurately by both Christianity and Islam, then the prophet would be much better understood. In no place does Muhammad deny that Christ was the Messiah and the firstfruits. He actually proclaims it.
The early Hadithic traditions show that the Bible was written in Hebrew at the time of the prophet, and there are two sources for this. Origines' Hexaplas was in a number of cases transcribed in Hebrew and the Bible was available from Pella and Arabia in the earliest times, with the Church of God clearly established in Mesopotamia. The Law and the Prophets must therefore have been easily accessible from the Judaic dynasties in Mecca and Arabia Felix in general.
Current Islam claims that the books that the prophet has read are not the same as those that exist today, and therefore they should not follow the command of the prophet to study the Torah and the scriptures that contain the New Testament. The Dead Sea Scrolls prove that this doctrine is false.
In his writings, Muhammad clearly recognizes that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah. The Sunnis and Shiites did with his teachings what Rome did with the gospel of the Kingdom of God. Because of this, and through the Arab idolatry, Mohammed began his ministry. Islam now has another dispensation, they profane the Sabbath against the express command of the prophet, and they do not follow the food laws because they are ignorant of the extensive law in the Torah, because they do not read it. One can not read the Koran separately from the whole Bible and come to understanding. This hiding of the truth, although unconsciously, still happens today. In the otherwise perfectly readable translation, N. J. Darwood translated Al Tariq with the Nightly Visitor as the weakest meaning. This name is used far less than the Morning Star or He who stands at the door and knocks, but it was known and used in 1 Thessalonians 5: 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord is like a thief during the night.
Although this name loses some of its speed to Dutch readers, there is no doubt that Tariq is widely known throughout Islam. Ask any child named Tariq, which means his name, and if he knows, which is most likely, he will answer the Morning Star. Recognition in the Sura, the Morning Star and He with the pierced side of Jesus Christ is simple and unavoidable.
So we can see the development of this tradition since Moses, who reflected the first prophetic commentary on Genesis 17:19 and the promise to Judah in Genesis 49:10, The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him the nations will be obedient. The prophecy of Moses in Deuteronomy 18:15 and 18: 18-19 is seen as fulfilled by Christ.
The general expectation of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition is the coming of the Messiah, the King of Justice, who will establish a thousand-year reign (Revelation 20: 4), also known as the Millennium. The Christian tradition is that the Millennium (or Chiliad) will be preceded by the first resurrection of the Pelekizu (the martyrs, or the persecuted for the sake of Christ). The second or general resurrection takes place at the end of the Millennium.
Satan (also Azazel: Hebrew or Iblis: Arabic) is bound for a thousand years and then released at the end of the Millennium, where he will again seduce the world and the last war takes place.
This last deception is followed by the complete destruction of the nations, and then there is the second or total resurrection of the dead. The Qur'an in Sura 18 Al-Kahf (the Cave) 95-101 refers to this last war of Gog and Magog by name and shows that this is the time that the last trumpet is blown before the total resurrection of the dead and the judgment as we have seen. The last trumpet actually consists of two trumpets (Sura 39:69 Al-Zumar (The troops), and Sura 79: 7 ff Al-Insan (those who drag on) The troops have the first blow for the destruction of the nations, and the second for the resurrection, and verses 70-76 show the opening of the books of judgment.
Isaiah 65:20 shows that there will be a period of 100 years after the second resurrection so that all may receive salvation. After this the judgment takes place and the destruction of the unrepentant.
The biblical prophecies indicate that Elijah (or someone in the spirit of Elijah) is sent to announce the coming of the Messiah (Mal 4: 5). Matthew 17:11 shows that Elijah is yet to come and restore everything and that John the Baptist was a forerunner of this prophet. The sons of Zadok refer to this prophet as the Interpreter of the Law (which is in fact rather the Messiah of Israel than Elijah). Jeremiah 4:15 indicates that the prophet or voice giving the warning of the last days (see the paper The Warning of the Last Days [44]) comes from Dan and Ephraim. Later Catholic prophecies refer to this Danite prophet as the Danite Antichrist because he is a iconoclastic Sabbatist and preaches against Sunday worshiping churches.
The Mahdist tradition of Islam states that the Last Day of Hari Kiamat is announced by a time of global disasters. Suffering and oppression are then put to an end by the appearance of the Mahdi as the repairer of the order and the king of the Millennial Kingdom. This Kingdom is destroyed by Daddjal, the demon, (Revelation 20: 4-12) who in turn is defeated by the Prophet Isa (Jesus), who must restore righteousness. The Mahdists have confused the teachings of the scriptures and the Quran and have placed Elijah, or the Imam Hahdi, the Interpreter of the Law, as the repairer and king of the millennial kingdom, and they do Isa or Christ come after the release of Satan (in this case Daddjal) for the last war of Gog and Magog just before the end of the Millennium. Nevertheless, the prophet's expectation is the same.
The Messianic expectations of Islam have been taken over by the Ahmadiyyah Movement, which, founded by Mirza Ghulam Armad at the end of the nineteenth century, also adopted ideas from the Hindu as well as the Messiah in the Middle East (see K. Cragg (cf. Ling 7.37 and 7.39), Islam and the Muslim, Open University Press, 1978, page 70) So they are forged.
In Surah 18 Al-Kahf (the Cave) we find in verses 94-111, that Gog and Magog (the Leader and the Nation) first stand symbolically between the nations (Bergen), and in verse 100 we find that they let go to be destroyed on the last trumpet and by the Lord before the Day of Resurrection of verse 106. The Gardens of Paradise are mentioned as the reward for believers who do good works in verse 108, but it is assumed that this means the second or last garden.
The symbolism of the mountains here has many different symbolic meanings. From the Bible we know that the nations (always described as mountains) will be leveled and destroyed by Christ, but after the release of Satan, Gog and Magog stand up again for the second and last war. It is possible that the Prophet used this path between the mountains as a symbol to remove the distinction of the national power under the Messiah, but nevertheless recorded in the genetic identity as can be expected within the boundaries mentioned by Moses. The association with the natural border of the Caucasus would be inevitable for an Arab from the time of the Prophet and therefore the declaration would be considered an important symbol. The message of the Quran must therefore be explained within the context of the scriptures.
When the Qur'an is taken and read separately, it can, just like the New Testament, be twisted, and thereby inevitably become the source of division, hatred, persecution and war. When all three books are read together, as it should be, understanding is possible, and a complete plan for salvation emerges that can not be misunderstood.
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The Bible says that we need two or three witnesses to prove a matter, so I searched more on Internet for Jahoveh.
After a while I found Jahoveh in a song on a webside for Church of South India.
It is in Newsletter Vol. 2 / Issue 43 - How to beat depression? http://csinewsletter.com/csi-vol-2/csi-news-2v43.asp
- about 80% down in the document:
Guide me O Lord, always
According to thy will
Thy will, not mine
My father, My Jahoveh
Finally I could believe that it was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who told me to find His true Name by throwing lots.